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2006-01-01 |
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| Name | Juan Nekai Babauta |
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Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 96950, United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
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September 07, 1953
(70 years)
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| Last Modifed | Scott³
Nov 26, 2007 03:29am |
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| Info | JUAN N. BABAUTA, the oldest son in a family of nine children, was born on Saipan on September 7, 1953, and spent his early childhood in the village of Tanapag. After he completed elementary school there, his parents sent him to the United States to further his education. He traveled to Vermont, where he lived on a dairy farm with a host family while attending Enosburg Falls High School. Babauta was a member of the Class of 1972's National Honors Society, and he was the student body president during his senior year. He attended a summer session at Johnson State College in Vermont before obtaining a bachelor of science degree in American history from Eastern New Mexico University, a master of arts degree in political science/American history from Eastern New Mexico University, and a master of science degree in health planning/administration from the University of Cincinnati. Babauta worked as a health planner for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands on Saipan from April to August of 1977. He returned to that position after earning his degree, and served as executive director for the Commonwealth Health Planning and Development Agency from May 1979 to January 1986. Babauta's public service career began with his election to a four-year term as senator, serving in the Fifth and Sixth Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislatures. As senator, his major accomplishments included drafting and winning passage of legislation insuring the environmental quality of life in the commonwealth; providing the people of the CNMI with rights to all groundwater resources; and establishing the board of education as an elected body and making the public school system an autonomous agency. At the end of his term as senator, Babauta was elected as resident representative to the United States, a position he held for three four-year terms. During his tenure, he secured $5.5 million for the construction of an Air Traffic Control Tower at the Saipan International Airport; $3 million for the American Memorial Park Development to honor Americans killed in the WWII Battle of Saipan; and funding for the International Broadcast Bureau (Voice of America) to locate transmitting stations on Saipan and Tinian. He also obtained official recognition from the U.S. Department of the Navy for the Saipan Scouts after a fifty-year wait and assured an equal opportunity for CNMI students to learn and serve at U.S. military academies. In an historic four-way race, Babauta was overwhelmingly elected as the commonwealth's fifth elected governor in 2001 and sworn in on January 14, 2002.
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